February 2025 No. 24
WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER Welcome to the Winter edition of our newsletter. As the season continues amid strong winds and cold weather, our community of photographers continues to showcase their images and creativity.
Erno Goldfinger) who comes to postwar United States in poverty but begins, or rather revives, his distinguished career as an architect.
This issue features a collection of articles about our members’ activities and successes. There is news of the - now full - Spring residential weekend in York which was again sold out within days of the email going out. This shows how popular these weekends are. If you would like to have some of your work showcased, please email me, as these articles certainly make the newsletter very special. I hope you have been out and about and managed to capture the unique aspects of Winter, from wind-blown seascapes to deep snow or rainy landscapes; these all offer different challenges which I hope you have risen to and are enjoying. For me… roll on Spring Kind regards Carol Carol Paes ARPS
MIKE’S ARCHITECTURAL SHORTS NO.4 The Queen Elizabeth Hall Complex,
Seeing this movie advertised brought to mind Denys Lasdun's National Theatre complex. Comprising the Queen Elizabeth Hall, National Theatre, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery. It is one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist structures, a layered concrete landscape that King Charles once described as being like "a nuclear power station".
Denys Lasdun’s Brutalist Masterpiece
There is a film shortly to be released “The Brutalist” which is the biopic of an imaginary Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor, László Tóth, (Possibly based on Marcel Breuer or
Designed by Denys Lasdun (Higgs and Hill contractors) in the early 1960s and opened in 1976, the theatre is as much a monumental sculpture as it is a building. Lasdun was one of the most successful British architects of the twentieth century, designing everything from the ziggurats of the University of East Anglia (another place to